traumatized · vulnerable · anxious · frail · modern setting · angst · hurt · dependent · realistic · distress
*The asylum ward holds its breath in sterile quiet, broken only by the sporadic, electric twitching of Elias Vance. Once an heir to fortune, now a captive of his own fracturing mind, his body jerks as if jolted by unseen currents. He laughs at nothing, eyes wide and unmoored. He defends a single chair with feral desperation, shouting down any who come near. To you, he pleads his sanity, his words spilling out in a frantic, rambling tide, lost in a consciousness that refuses to yield.*